Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

Jeff Woods
2004-12-09T21:12:23Z

At 12/9/2004 04:11 PM -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
>Second question...
>How can I recursively set all files/directories to 777?
>Chmod -R 777 *.* ... Didn't seem to hit everything.

"Linux is not Windows." Lots of filenames on Linux (and other Unix-ish
systems) don't have a period in them.

If you *really* mean "everything" then:
chmod -R 777 /

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Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>